Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-04-08 | Page 7 | Kaiser's Men Deny Mission

KAISER'S MEN DENY MISSION Envoys Attempt to Reach Abyssinia to Stir Up Natives Na-tives Against British Fails. Rome, via Paris, April S The mem I bers of the German mission who made an unsuccessful attempt to penetrate to Addis Abeda to communicate with the German minister to Abyssinia hae just arrived in Rome on their way home. Italy did not permit them passage through Eritrea, but undertook under-took to see that mail for the minister minis-ter would go forward in due course. The members of the mission had a series of remarkable experiences which included twenty-three davs on the Rod sea in a native boat, an encounter en-counter with a French cruiser which almost resulted in their capture, and persistent but futile efforts to obtain permission to travel through the Itali an coast country It has been rumored that the object of this mission was to instigate the A by ssinians to attack British forces in the Sudan. This the Germans deny, saying their purpose was only to carry mail to the minister This denial has been met by Italian newspapers news-papers with a recital of the composition composi-tion of the mission, and also by the fact that it traveled through Rumania, Bulgaria. Turkey and Asia Minor before be-fore landing on the Arabian coast near Akabah The mission consisted of Herr Frobenius. a Gorman explorer who is described as an Intimate friend of Emperor William, and two secretaries secre-taries and a special attache of the foreign office. From Akabah the travelers crossed the Red sea to Massowa. capital of the Italian colony of Eritrea. It was on this trip that a French cruiser over hauled them The native boat chartered char-tered b the mission was thoroughly searched by the French officers, but the four Germans had so carefully hid den themselves that they remained undiscovered. When it was apparent that the Itali an authorities would not permit them to go to Eritrea the mission gave up its objective and started on the return re-turn journey home